Rubina Raja

Rubina Raja
Nationality Danish
Academic background
Alma mater University of Copenhagen, University of Oxford
Thesis Urban development and regional identity in the eastern Roman provinces, 50 BC - AD 250: Aphrodisias, Ephesos, Athens, Gerasa
Doctoral advisor R.R.R. Smith, Margareta Steinby
Academic work
Discipline Classics
Institutions Aarhus University

Rubina Raja is Professor of Classical Archaeology at Aarhus University and leads The Danish National Research Foundation's Center of Excellence for Urban Network Evolutions.[1] Raja is known in particular for her work on ancient iconography, especially portraits from Palmyra.[2]

Career

Raja studied Classical Archaeology, Italian, and Cultural Communication and Journalism at the University of Copenhagen, spending a year as an exchange student at the Universitá di Roma La Sapienza (1997 to 1998) and gained her BA in 1999. Raja moved to Lincoln College, Oxford for graduate studies, gaining her M.St. in Classical archaeology in 2000 and her D.Phil. in 2005 with a dissertation on Urban development and regional identity in the eastern Roman provinces, 50 BC - AD 250: Aphrodisias, Ephesos, Athens, Gerasa.[1] Raja's dissertation was published in 2012.[3]

From 2005 Raja was a post-doctoral scholar and teaching assistant at the Archaeological Institute of the University of Hamburg before moving to Aarhus University as a post-doctoral fellow in the department for Classical archaeology in 2007. Raja became an Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology in 2009, and has been Professor of Classical Archaeology since 2012.[1]

Raja is co-director of the International Jerash North-West Quarter Project, which since 2011 has conducted annual excavations on the site of ancient Gerasa.[4][5] The innovative work uses a combination of aerial photography from the World War I period, modern aerial photography, and 3D scans of the site.[6][7]

Raja is the director of the Palmyra Portrait Project.[8] The project seeks to understand Palmyrene funerary portraits by cataloguing all known examples world-wide starting with the large collection at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen.[9][10] The project is also digitising the Harald Ingholt archive, held at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek.[11]

Honours

In 2015, Raja was awarded the EliteForsk Prize by the Danish Council for Independent Research.[12]

The Archaeological Institute of America appointed Raja as a Kershaw Lecturer 2018 to 2019 and she will complete a lecture tour of the United States presenting her research.[13][14]

Selected publications

  • ed. with Andreas Kropp The World of Palmyra (Scientia Danica. Series H, Humanistica, 4, vol. 6; Palmyrene studies, 1, Copenhagen:  The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 2016)[15]
  • with AH Sørensen Harald Ingholt and Palmyra (Aarhus 2015)
  • Urban Development and Regional Identity in the Eastern Roman Provinces, 50 BC – AD 250: Aphrodisias, Ephesos, Athens, Gerasa (Copenhagen, Museum Tusculanum Press, 2012)

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Rubina Raja - Research - Aarhus University". pure.au.dk. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  2. ↑ "Rubina Raja". Institute for Advanced Study. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  3. ↑ Guerber, Eric (2013). "R. Raja, URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND REGIONAL IDENTITY IN THE EASTERN ROMAN PROVINCES, 50 bc–ad 250: APHRODISIAS, EPHESOS, ATHENS, GERASA. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2012. Pp. xvii + 273, illus. isbn9788763526067. €60.00/US$78.00". The Journal of Roman Studies. 103: 299–300. doi:10.1017/S0075435813000385. ISSN 0075-4358.
  4. ↑ 173680@au.dk (2018-10-10). "The Danish-German Jerash Northwest Quarter Project". projects.au.dk. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  5. ↑ 173680@au.dk (2017-07-14). "People". projects.au.dk. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  6. ↑ "Archeological high technology maps hidden ancient societies « Danish National Research Foundation". dg.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  7. ↑ "Once lost archaeology revealed by satellite images and aerial photography". sciencenordic.com. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  8. ↑ 173680@au.dk (2018-09-28). "People". projects.au.dk. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  9. ↑ "Funerary Portraiture Helps Scholars Reconstruct the Social History of Ancient Palmyra". The Getty Iris. 2017-02-24. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  10. ↑ "Palmyra's heritage - Oman Observer". 2016.omanobserver.om. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  11. ↑ 173680@au.dk (2017-01-16). "About the project". projects.au.dk. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  12. ↑ tag. "Five researchers honoured with EliteForsk awards — Uddannelses- og Forskningsministeriet". ufm.dk. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  13. ↑ "Head of center Rubina Raja will tour the US as Kershaw Lecturer « Danish National Research Foundation". dg.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  14. ↑ "Rubina Raja - Archaeological Institute of America". www.archaeological.org. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  15. ↑ Grassi, Maria Teresa (2017). "Review of: The World of Palmyra. Scientia Danica. Series H, Humanistica, 4, vol. 6; Palmyrene studies, 1". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN 1055-7660.
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